The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-28

ask him to stop their paper The report
that Mr.. Dana said he left his paper and
went down to the sea because he liked to
be near something that was booming proves
to have been canard, whatever that is, for
he Indignantly told me that he never made
use of the expression.
Mr. Dana's hearing is a little impaired,
but his mind is just as subtle and buoyant
as ever it was His memory is Unfortunately
active as is sometimes the case with men
well advanced in years. enabling him not
only to recall readily what has actually oc-
CURED during his lifetime, but great many
things that have not.
A call on Mr.. Dana is rather more salts
factory than one made at the office of other
morning papers, because one is not disturbed
by people who have business with the paper.
''You are still connected with newspa-
per, are you not, MIR. Danaw inquired.
''Ehp'
"You are still connected with a newspa-
per, are you notp l asked, raising my voice.
ION, yes, | have always been connected
with newspapers. For years l wrote over
the nom de plume of Cad, my initials run
together in lower case"
"And you still do write, do you notp'
"SirT'
"You still do write say"
'Well, try to, but man who is going
to do right ought to begin early in life, and
then it will not be so difficult as it is to ex-
pertinent with it at my age.n
mo, you do not understand me. in
quired if you still write pieces for the paper"
Eyes, yes, of course, still write for my
own paper"
And does the paper print what you
writeg"
Eyes, mostly. Some days the cat gets
hold of it, but all those humorous editorials
about prominent people who are dead or
gone to Europe are mine"
''Then YOU are fond of humor, are you
Mr. Dana"
eyes, like humor very much when it is
explained to me, but | believe that | enjoy
taking my cat with me and prancing over a
great mans grave better than anything else.
1t is very funny and is perfectly safe. Own
ing paper, in a measure, as do, can get
things printed as humorous which other pa
pers might object to-"
II just heard of an accident up on Mott
street that you might make a funny para
graph of. A Chinaman fell down two
| flights of stairs this morning and fractured
| himself just above the opium joint"
II beg pardon"
81 say that a Chinaman fell down two
flights of stairs to-day ON Mott street and
shattered himself just above the opium
joint. The man is dead, and so it would be
right in your line.n
81 know; but why should you refer to the
opium joint as though it was a part of the
Chinaman! An opium joint is not part of
a man. 1t is place. It is locality. 1t
should not be confused with anatomy.
can't do anything with it myself, but if you
will write it out and sign your name to it |
can comment on it adversely and claim that
you are opposed to people who fall down
stairs, especially foreigners, and that you
are trying to hold them up to ridicule. That
is what call fun. My humor is different
from anything else in that line. l deal in
what may be called the strabismus style of
humor. / always thought that was mighty
good thing about When is little dogs tail
like door? and the answer is, when it is
aiar.'"
But little dogs tail is never a jar. You
have got two jokes mixed up. You are
thinking of When is a little dogs tail not a
little dogs tail I and the answer is, When
it is waggin'' The door Joke is entirely
different The two are not contemporane-
Gus. There are at least fifty years differ
ence between the Inauguration of the two"
just then a man came in to tell Mr.. Dana
that they were ready now to go to press
with the inside of the paper and needed him
in the press-room Mr. Dana excused him
self by saying that since they had been a
little short of hands he had been helping to
run off the papers and write wrappers for
the mail. He said that now he only wrote
the wrappers, and if | could wait few min
utes he would be right back; but l said |
could not remain, and SO, shaking hands
with the eminent journalist and sanguinary
war spotter, l came away.
Those who have been in the habit of
criticising Mr.. Dana's policy and Directing
to what he says about his superiors should
remember that he has to write about some
body. A paper that does not deal with
people at all is dull and uninteresting, and
so Mr.. Dana is almost forced, as it were, to
write about his superiors! BILL NYE.